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비트코인 컨퍼런스 2025 현장 리캡. 트럼프 행정부의 비트코인 전략적 준비금 지지 분위기 강조, 파키스탄 정부의 전략적 비트코인 준비금 설립 발표를 언급. 피터 쉬프의 비트코인 비판과 금 선호 인터뷰, 금의 토큰화 가능성 논의. Block Rewards의 비트코인 급여/저축 플랜 소개. 본인은 홀더 성향이며 XRP 관련 언급은 제한적.
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hey what's going on family and friends I hope you're all doing well now that I've settled down after my trip to Las Vegas for the week for the the Bitcoin Conference and the XRP Las Vegas conference I want to give a quick recap of my time while attending the Bitcoin Conference 2025 it was by far the largest conference I've ever been to it felt like walking through 10 Costco's it was easy to get lost or at least lose your friends at the conference there were hundreds of booths dozens of interesting and engaging fireside chats as well as a whole bunch of entertainment the people watching was incredible first off I have to say thanks to the team at Merlin not just for the opportunity to wear their jerseys at the conference but for the quality conversations as well countless of people came up to me asking if Merlin was the marketing team covering the conference there are about 20 people at the conference representing the Merlin brand Merlin isn't just a phenomenal team they've built a beautiful application that connects all your web 3 wallets into one seamless crypto tracking dashboard to conveniently monitor all your crypto from one platform they've also built AI empowered exit strategy tools check them out at Merlin crypto.com or by clicking my referral link below now while attending the conference we heard from the 43rd treasurer of the United States who also sits on the board of the fintech company Ripple Labs her name is Rosie Reyes who also doubled down on the importance of a sound and regulated digital asset industry reconfirming that the train has left the proverbial station years ago first of all you know I think for for us you know I I actually LED the future of money initiative starting in 2,012 and back then the fear was Google Wallet was gonna take everything over and everything's gonna shut down no more currency no more coins and I think what people have to realize is that consumer behavior is very very hard to change unless there's a shock to the system well the pandemic really provided that shock to the system in terms of what needs to change you're gonna hear me say a lot the train has left the station so you know we heard from the vice president JD Vance echo President Trump's sentiment around a strategic bitcoin reserve and I think this conference this movement of people is where the future of cryptocurrency in this great country gets decided so let's start by making one thing abundantly clear that future is going to be decided by the people by you not by unelected bureaucrats and I'm here today to say loud and clear with President Trump Crypto finally has a champion and an ally in the White House that conference room was packed from wall to wall and the security detail was extremely tight only 14,000 of the 40,000 attendees at the Bitcoin conference were allowed in that room thankfully I made the cut and got a great seat directly in front of the stage we also witnessed the government official of Pakistan confirm their strategic Bitcoin reserve as well paving the way for mass adoption for digital asset technology worldwide today is a very historic day because today I will announce that the Pakistani government is setting up their own government LED Bitcoin strategic reserve this is just one of the many dominos to fall the Trump brothers also made an appearance they spoke on their family's colorful history being debanked by the system and by the way the antis can no longer deny what's happening out there I mean every single day you had CNBC that was shitting on on all of us and everything that we believed in now all of a sudden they're embracing it for the first time I mean isn't that a really beautiful thing you had you had Jim Cramer going out there and saying that bitcoin was gonna go to zero before it was gonna go to 200,000 and now all of a sudden inverse Cramer baby inverse Cramer now all of a sudden they're kind of biting their thumbs everyone was on the edge of their seats if they had them and these two were not backing down they are absolutely bullish on blockchain thank you don thank you guys thank you what about XRP you bet I asked the Trump bros what they thought about XRP however no bites not yet one of my favorite conversations was with Peter Schiff in front of his booth at the Bitcoin conference he was very much anti bitcoin understanding he's a gold bug I mean they should make all the bitcoin stuff orange not not gold because they're trying to you know represent it as digital gold but it's not digital gold it's digital risk but it's really the opposite of gold what are your thoughts when people say that oh it could be used as collateral collateral for what I mean I know that there are people that are lending against bitcoin but I think those are very risky loans cause bitcoin could collapse at any minute and in fact if it does start to fall and the lenders want to sell the collateral to protect themselves then it could really crash I think it I think it's horrible collateral well let's switch gears to your domain precious metals gold it's it's so funny though while there's this big trend of or mainstream media is pushing out Bitcoin silently central banks are acquiring more gold than ever yeah foreign central banks are not buying bitcoin I mean people think bitcoin is the future well if that's the case why are these central banks who are preparing for a future post US dollar reserve currency why are they buying gold and not bitcoin that's a great question and so for me I am not only buying or investing in digital assets but I'm also investing in gold through new alternative channels there's these new and emerging transactional gold platforms or or institutions that are leveraging gold as an asset backed currency what are your thoughts on these trends well gold is money it's not a currency uh currencies could be backed by real money which would be gold you have fiat currencies that are backed by nothing but you know gold is great as money and you know we have a lot of our clients that shift gold who buy gold as a store of value but if you wanna use gold as a medium of exchange and as unit of account I think utilizing the technology we have now including blockchain you could tokenize gold which is something that I'll be doing eventually myself other people have already done it there's just not a lot of demand for it yet but you could tokenize gold uh or you could put gold you know on a platform and use the internet where people can easily affect transactions in gold people can buy and sell goods and services yeah pay in gold get paid in gold but you can do that cheaper and faster than than with Bitcoin I mean Bitcoin is very uneconomical to actually use as a payment mechanism but gold works perfectly for payments better than fiat and and and so I think the future of blockchain if it has a future in payments is when it's married to gold yeah not when you're using it for these worthless tokens like bitcoin I watched him eat a Bitcoin maxi alive he asked the maxi what are you stacking stacking sats that's stupid there's nothing to stack you can't stack sats like you can stack gold bars now at least you're stacking something he said also I brushed elbows with the CEO of Block Rewards out of Canada these guys created the first investment product allowing their customers to direct deposit their paychecks into a Bitcoin benefits plan kind of like a 401k but only investing in Bitcoin do you mind uh sharing with the audience or give a pitch on what block rewards is John yeah block rewards is a a corporate compensation in bitcoin um so we're starting with our first product is the Bitcoin Savings Plan which is essentially a model like a health benefit but you know like a sort of a typical savings plan it's almost like uh Block Rewards is is in a way a 401k plan but geared specifically for Bitcoin what are your thoughts yep that's right yeah exactly it's something where um companies that want to give their employees benefits uh can sign it sign up and uh it's just a great option for people if they want to save in bitcoins so that's what we're starting with we're signing up companies who want their employers to get part of their paycheck in bitcoin and then we're gonna move into rewards and other forms of corporate compensation do is this a really wonderful times because with the like for instance the stable coin uh players that are coming to the fold I saw or read on LinkedIn actually yesterday that there's a potential for even employees to earn their paychecks in stable coins what are your thoughts on that if stable coins versus bitcoin yeah I mean so I think that the the the way the regulation works is you need to pay people in quote unquote US dollars and so stable coins matches that that that sort of does that essentially when you get paid in Bitcoin you get transferred US dollars and then I then convert it into bitcoin so the the US dollar is you know got to be part of the the payroll um uh workflow and uh but I mean you know more power to stable coins the the better um you know tether's gonna be on uh you know on lightning so you can get your US dollar stable coin or your lightning sats it's gonna be amazing in the future last question for you John what is your crypto exit strategy sir I'm a I'm a hodler I just I just hold I mean you know if uh if it if it zooms up I might I might have a nice renovation or something like that but other than that I'm just holding other cool people I met at the conference included Economic Ninja the guy has more energy than me and that's saying something I had a blast talking to him about his approach as an entrepreneur and as being a digital asset investor when you have core protocols that are true proven winners like Bitcoin you know Litecoin Digibyte there's XRP right and everyone's chasing a bunch of tokens which I like the tokens but it seems like a lot of these are gonna fail and that's one thing that's concerning to me there's a lot of excitement a lot of hype yeah but there's a lot of people that are brand new and they haven't gotten wrecked during a like a downturn yeah yeah you're right Jack Muller was also a very nice young man for being a Bitcoin maxi and for being a gentleman that stood around my height or a little shorter regardless his confidence made him stand taller than any man in that room and I asked him about his approach to public speaking it was a short and sweet conversation very much well received since I didn't bring up XRP hahaha other than that the conference was very productive there were so many other leaders visionaries and politicians to name and way too many thought provoking conversations to address I could be here for hours but at the end of the day there's no doubt that this industry is here to stay it's not only scaling vertically but horizontally as well and walking through the enormous Bitcoin mining rigs was something that stood out to me as well that's really where I see bitcoin thriving it's purpose built for the decentralization of power drop these massive mining rigs next to renewable energy sources attach a Starlink and boom you're instantly mining and instantly participating in the global Bitcoin network Alrighty ladies and gentlemen I'm off to Singapore for the ripple hosted X R P L APEX conference I'll do my very best to provide you with real time updates from overseas now with that being said thank you all for tuning in today have a great rest of your day and week love you mucho
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